Stay safe in the US. Prayers to all victims...

--Brian
Gryffindor Seeker

the killing of people in anything but a dire self defence situtation is wrong

my thoughts go out to the dead and injured and their families

I wish I could understand the motivations behind such a senseless act against human life. That may sound flowery, but I truly think that nothing can be a good enough answer to me as to why. Politics, Greed, anyone of those motivations is simply a sore and unequalizing excuse.

I'm the son of a military family. And while I love my country, I know what the military is capable of, and several of the people here at work went to Desert Storm and have been in the military in the past before that event. They all say let's hunt down who did this. Somebody has to die for this to equate with the passengers of those planes who died, the people injured or killed by the debris of the collapse, those in the World Trade Center, those in the Pentagon...

I will not bother to offer my reflections on the deeper meanings of this tragedy in relation to my thoughts of what it says about the evil that exists in this world, but I will say this. As one who grew up in the New York area and for whom the sight of the World Trade Center was a familiar, reassuring symbol to me, I like many felt the impulsive need to always look at some Hollywood FX movie that showed these familar symbols subject to destruction. How many of us sat through "Meteor" or "Deep Impact" just because we wanted to ooh and ahh at Hollywood's ability to make these seemingly impregnable symbols fall? And yet, as we marveled at it, we always felt it was okay to ooh and ahh because we never thought we'd be forced to see that kind of sight for real up close with our own eyes on live television. This is supposed to be the kind of thing only Irwin Allen or Jerry Bruckheimer would dream up, and thus we could feel safe oohing at the FX and not feeling affected by the human tragedy that would have to accompany such an event because we still kept thinking, "That can never happen in real life."

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Originally posted by Widescreen:
Somebody has to die for this to equate with the passengers of those planes who died, the people injured or killed

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Originally posted by Eric Paddon:
This is supposed to be the kind of thing only Irwin Allen or Jerry Bruckheimer would dream up

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I pray for the people involved in the tragedy..and I pray that those responsible will be brought to justice. My hometown of Pittsburgh is near on of the crashes...I hope they are ok.

GOd help us all, cause this is going to mean something big.

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Originally posted by Eric Paddon:
Remember this date. September 11, 2001. As infamous a date as December 7, 1941 and November 22, 1963.

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And for me personally, January 28, 1986.

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and like all killing (except direct self defence) it solves nothing

I first thought I accidently switched on one of these desaster movies when I started the TV.

...and not so long ago I myself was standing on top of this building..gives me the creeps...

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Originally posted by John Zimmer:
This is like a Tom Clancy novel!!..Unbeilevable...

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John: CNN actually had Clancy on earlier this morning. He was talking about how he had mentioned a possible attack of this sort happening to a high-ranking general in the Army. I thought this act was only something spawned by the imagination...something that wouldn't happen in reality.

I want to make clear that my statement about somebody having to die to equal what happened to those casualties of today's events while unwritten as such was really what some of my co-workers think- that nuking Palestine will settle everything in one moment. I do not share their opinion- and I would prefer this nation hunt those responsible and bring them to justice. I am an American Citizen who believes more in dignity and justice than the easy way of nuclear attack the way most of my compatriots do. Should anyway question my patriotism, which so far no one has, I will deal with them- but that't not the point. The point is my country has been attacked. We are not crippled. We are not afraid to ask for help- but we are also not an invalid nation.

I know people who think this is the Armageddon coming. For whatever it's worth, I think it is exactly as Bush said: It is a test of our resolve. And if you look at our posture in the world as to our history, I think most people we find we have a lot more backbone, and we are just as prepared to defend what we believe.

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Originally posted by Dr. Zaius:
people do this as revenge and punishment for what is done to them

and like all killing (except direct self defence) it solves nothing

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Dr. Zaius, you truly make me sick. Why on Earth would you try to make the horrible people who did this into victims?

My heart goes out to all the families and friends of the victims as do my prayers. I will be donating blood tommorrow and do whatever I can to help in this time of grief and dispair.

May we find the guilty quickly and may they pay the price that juistice in the hearts of man requires.

110 stories of building falling down from that far... if there are survivors, it would surprise the hell out of me.

I am very angry at the moment, 3 weeks ago Bin Laden said he would commit a attack against the U.S. the likes of which have not been seen before- why the hell did we sit back and do nothing.

Oliver North has said that sources say there were 50 people sent out to devestate the U.S. and Isreal.

My sympothys go out to all of you tied up in this.

But please everyone be careful, 50 people... this is not over yet and very well could be the catalyst that will plunge the world into a 3 war.